Jobs at Oxford Quantum Circuits

Provides 1st and 2nd line IT support across Windows, macOS, Linux, cloud platforms, networks, applications, and hardware. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, ticket and SLA management, onboarding and offboarding, asset and license management, system monitoring, documentation, backup and recovery support, and contributions to security, compliance, automation, and IT improvement projects. The role also supports cross-functional initiatives and escalates complex issues to 3rd line specialists.

Lead OQC’s global, multi-channel marketing strategy and campaigns across digital, PR, events, and account-based marketing. Manage HubSpot workflows, automation, reporting, and campaign optimization using data from HubSpot, GA4, and AgilityPR. Develop technical and scientific content, support sales enablement and revenue growth, manage agencies, suppliers, budgets, and events, and line-manage Marketing Managers while maintaining brand consistency and strategic alignment.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of OQC’s hybrid compute platform, connecting CPUs, GPUs, simulators, and QPUs. Design stable interfaces, orchestration, capability matching, fallback mechanisms, policy enforcement, and backend adapters. Establish standards for reliability, security, testing, observability, and extensibility while remaining hands-on with implementation. Coordinate technical contributors across product, engineering, commercial, and leadership teams, and lead integrations with infrastructure, Databricks, QPU systems, and customer environments.

Develop and maintain reliable software supporting the production and operation of quantum computers. Own projects across requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and evaluation; troubleshoot development and production issues; design systems; maintain CI/CD pipelines; review and test code; document solutions; and mentor less-experienced engineers. The role spans greenfield and established codebases and requires collaboration with technical stakeholders across the software lifecycle.

Build and operate secure batch and streaming data pipelines across cloud, private-cloud, on-premise, and datacentre environments. Develop governed datasets for machine learning and quantum workloads, ensuring data quality, lineage, access control, retention, and traceability. Create reliable evaluation and synthetic-data workflows, optimize pipeline performance and costs, and implement automated testing and CI/CD while collaborating with software, platform, security, ML, and infrastructure teams.

Build production-quality quantum software by translating algorithms and research prototypes into tested, maintainable components. Integrate quantum workloads with APIs, containerized services, Kubeflow workflows, data infrastructure, simulators, and QPUs. Diagnose issues across quantum and classical execution layers, design hybrid workflows, and apply CI/CD, testing, documentation, version control, and code review while collaborating across research, platform, infrastructure, and applications teams.

Leads OQC’s APAC commercial strategy, revenue pipeline, partnerships, strategic accounts, and customer relationships. Identifies opportunities across private and public sectors, manages tenders and grants, and leads Solution Architects. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, and technical teams to translate customer needs into commercial propositions and influence the product roadmap. Represents OQC externally through pitches, conferences, and strategic meetings while monitoring market trends, customer satisfaction, and regional adoption barriers.

Designs, simulates, prototypes, tests, and deploys passive RF and microwave circuitry, PCBs, packaging, and control/readout solutions for quantum computing systems. Responsibilities include optimizing signal integrity and performance, analyzing test data, managing technical validation and documentation, engaging suppliers, and collaborating with hardware, engineering, and supply chain teams on UK and international installations.

Lead OQC’s global IT strategy, infrastructure, networking, cloud environments, business systems, security, and support operations. Build and develop hybrid internal and outsourced teams, manage technology budgets and vendors, and deliver scalable, resilient systems across international locations. Own governance, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 alignment, disaster recovery, business continuity, technology transformation, and IT roadmap execution while partnering with executive leadership.

Develop and evaluate classical algorithms and machine-learning methods for banking, fintech, payments, fraud detection, credit risk, and transaction modeling. Build production-relevant baselines and synthetic-data benchmarks, collaborate with quantum algorithm engineers, integrate methods into applications, and assess privacy, calibration, robustness, operational usefulness, and model-risk trade-offs. Communicate results and limitations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads OQC’s US Solutions Architecture function, guiding technical customer engagements and developing quantum computing use cases, algorithms, proofs of concept, benchmarks, and recommendations. Translates business challenges into practical quantum solutions, shapes proposals and product direction, represents OQC externally, and tracks applied quantum advances. Manages and mentors Solutions Architects while collaborating with Business Development, Account Management, Product, and technical teams.

Lead OQC’s US Client Solutions function by developing strategic enterprise partnerships, converting complex technical opportunities into commercial deployments, and building high-performing Client Solutions and Solutions Architecture teams. Own customer strategy, delivery, budgets, intellectual property governance, and organizational growth while translating customer insight into scalable products and shaping global product direction. The role requires executive relationship management across regulated industries, frequent international travel, and collaboration across UK and US time zones.

Develop low-qubit quantum generative models for synthetic and rare-event data, including banking applications. Design, test, and benchmark QCBMs, qGANs, quantum Boltzmann methods, variational circuits, and sampling techniques against classical alternatives. Optimize implementations for current quantum hardware, validate them on simulators and QPUs, analyze experimental results, and package successful algorithms for OQC’s hybrid computing platform.

Develop and evaluate quantum algorithms for detection, prediction, and estimation workloads. Design measurement strategies, controlled experiments, and ablation studies to assess circuit costs, sample complexity, noise sensitivity, hardware portability, and quantum contribution. Benchmark theoretical expectations against real quantum hardware and help translate promising methods into repeatable capabilities for hybrid computing products. Collaborate across quantum research, software, product, and engineering teams.

Develop and test superconducting quantum computing hardware systems through experimental design, cryogenic and microwave measurements, calibration, automation, and quantitative data analysis. Build prototypes, benchmark readout and reset operations, investigate technical issues, document findings, and recommend system improvements. Collaborate with quantum control and hardware teams while contributing to technical publications, conferences, and multidisciplinary engineering projects.

Develop and integrate hardware and software prototypes for superconducting quantum systems. Perform cryogenic and microwave measurements, hardware characterization, calibration, benchmarking, automation, and quantitative data analysis. Contribute to experimental design, system builds, technical documentation, reporting, and recommendations while collaborating across quantum control and hardware teams.

Supports day-to-day office operations and facilities coordination, including front-of-house service, visitor assistance, office supply management, catering, travel bookings, events, onboarding, office tours, and health and safety briefings. The role focuses on maintaining a safe, organised, welcoming workplace and coordinating logistics for employees, visitors, and external stakeholders.

Leads experimental system integration for quantum computing testbeds, combining quantum processors, cryogenics, control electronics, firmware, HPC, and real-time decoding. Owns system architecture, requirements, verification, validation, technology transfer, operational improvement, technical roadmaps, and complex research project delivery. Builds and develops a technical team, coordinates multidisciplinary programs, supports external collaborations, and translates research objectives into reliable, high-performance experimental platforms.

Leads OQC’s quantum processor design and characterization strategy, setting multi-year research roadmaps and managing multidisciplinary teams across device theory, numerical modeling, hardware co-design, and experimental validation. The role oversees processor development from theory through prototyping, measurement, and validation; aligns architecture with control hardware, software, and product requirements; manages budgets and investments; develops technical leaders; and represents OQC to executives, partners, and the global quantum research community.

Leads OQC’s research software, logical compilation, and systems integration teams in Spain. Sets technical direction, shapes architectures, translates scientific challenges into software capabilities, and guides research tooling from experimentation to production. Builds a high-performing organization, develops technical leaders, partners with research and engineering groups, and integrates quantum computing systems with HPC environments, third-party platforms, and community tools.